Alfalfa

or Lucerne, B IMG:p23_3.png:Chinese characters to« hsu. Nnxs Ebbesen Hansen, profe or in the South Dakota State College of Agriculture, found that this important forage plant grew in Asia much further north than had been supposed. The blue flowered variety was found as far as 45° north latitude in Hi; and north of that and stretching away far northward beyond the Trans-Siberian Railway between 50° and 64° north latitude, was a yellow-flowered variety. The importance of this lies in the hope it gives of cultivating profitably the North American desert regions, right up to the Hudson's Bay district. Mu-hsii is not uncommon in the northern provinces of China. Some seed was sent to England and elsewhere, obtained by Hosie in Shensi. In 1912 half a ton of the seed was sent to Pretor i a. KrRKWOOD: The Romantic Story of a Scientist, in the World's Work, April, 1908.